Violent conflict and its aftermath are pressing problems for international development. However, the results of development in conflict contexts have generally been disappointing and their preventati ...
Women’s Transformational Roles in Local Conflict Prevention
Recognizing that women’s participation in conflict prevention at all levels is often invisible or overlooked, this new research study, “Women’s Transformational Roles in Local Conflict Prevention,” s ...
Claiming spaces: women mobilising for peace and equality in Myanmar
The Learning Brief focuses on the following overarching questions: In terms of the relevance and impact of the GPS window, what did the GPS funding mechanism enable CSOs to achieve? What has ...
Localization of Women, Peace, and Security
This briefing paper outlines the links between the impacts of the women’s rights organizations’ work and the advancement of the WPS agenda. On the 23rd anniversary of the first UN Security Council Re ...
Integrating gender in the DNA of peacebuilding: Learning with peers
Peacebuilding and conflict resolution organisations have worked to address structural inequalities and power dynamics core to gender inequality in the contexts in which they are working. Yet there ha ...
Breaking Barriers: Empowering Women in Peace Mediation for Lasting Peace in South Sudan
This case study examines women’s involvement in peace mediation processes in South Sudan and the barriers they face. Despite the recognized importance of women’s participation, challenges persist in ...
Localising Climate, Peace and Security: A Practical Step-by-Step Guidance Note for Local Peacebuilders
The GPPAC practical Step-by-Step Guide is a resource on how to document, assess, and address climate-related security risks at the local level. It outlines five steps to help local peacebuilders d ...
The Future of Environmental Peacebuilding: Nurturing an Ecosystem for Peace – A White Paper and Compendium
The term ‘White Paper’ is typically used in government circles to denote a publicly available, balanced document designed to help readers make decisions. This white paper seeks to encourage debate an ...
Peace Processes
The Political Settlements Research Programme at the University of Edinburgh has created a new dataset of over 1500 peace agreements, the PA-X database. Below are some of the important aspects of peac ...
Support Sudan’s Revolution, Not an Elite Peace Deal
Foreign powers’ obsessive focus on a transition process empowered generals and weakened democracy activists, paving the way to war.